Will Paul Ryan cut a fiscal deal with Democrats?

Cutting a real deal would mean losing the 2016 nomination but it “is possible if Ryan decides he’d rather be Speaker or Ways and Means Committee chairman than president,” Collender said.

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That seems unlikely to conservatives who note Ryan voted against the debt-ceiling deal that set up the budget conference, along with every other 2016 contender.

“A Republican who went out there and increased taxes and increased spending to get a little bit of defense money would be eaten alive,” said anti-tax activist Grover Norquist. “The idea that Ryan would raise taxes instead of reforming entitlements is counter to everything in his entire life.”

Norquist said he is a “follower of Ryan” — not the other way around — and that he trusts him implicitly.

“If Ryan said that it was a good deal, I would probably support it sight unseen,” Norquist said.

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